> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:38PM -0800, Craig Latta wrote:
> >
> >  > It's not the filesystem access that is slow. It is that the
> >  > current source code storage format reads the file character by
> >  > character, looking for the terminating !, and doing utf-8
> >  > conversion the whole way. 95% of the time in a MC snapshot is
> >  > spent in testing the source file characters for the terminating
> >  > ! character. I imagine you do much more in bulk rather than
> >  > character by character. The format of the .sources file is
> >  > horrible for access speed.
> >
> >       Oh, right! I forgot about that. :)  Yeah, should be quite a bit
> > faster, I'm just answering String objects that are sitting in memory.
> > The measurements will be interesting.
> >
> >       But again, I take it from your comment that you're actually
> > finding the speed of the traditional setup to be a problem? If so, then
> > yeah, it'd make a good marketing point.
>
> It's by far the biggest bottleneck in MC speed. Try viewing
> changes on the Morphic package. It takes about 3 minutes on a
> fast machine, and 99.6% of the time is source code lookup, last
> time I measured Morphic